Indonesia tsunami survivors remain jittery as deaths hit 429
Sumur (Indonesia):Panicked residents, police and soldiers in this remote fishing village clobbered by a devastating weekend tsunami ran to higher ground Tuesday, shouting “Water is coming! Water is coming!” and reciting verses from the Quran as emergency messages were broadcast over mosque speakers. It proved to be a false alarm, but a similar frenzy broke […]
Al-Qaeda attack at Christmas ceremony foiled in Pakistan
Lahore: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a terrorist attack at a Christmas ceremony in Punjab province and arrested four al-Qaeda terrorists. According to the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), it got a credible information that four terrorists belonging to al-Qaeda were present near Francis Abad, Sheikhupura road Gujranwala, some 80-km from Lahore. “They […]
Congress was not inclined for second Presidential term for Kalaam, reveals book
New Delhi: A P J Abdul Kalam could have returned as the president in 2012 with the backing of the BJP and the Trinamool Congress but with no support from the Congress and its allies, he pulled himself out of the race, a new book claims. Congress veteran Pranab Mukherjee was then chosen as the […]
Discussion on triple talaq bill in LS tomorrow
New Delhi: The politically sensitive bill which seeks to make the practice of instant triple talaq among Muslim men a penal offence will come up for discussion in Lok Sabha on Thursday. The Lok Sabha had last week on Thursday decided to take up the bill on December 27 after the Congress agreed to participate […]
Pak claims it foiled al-Qaeda attack at Christmas ceremony
Lahore: Pakistani authorities on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a terrorist attack at a Christmas ceremony in Punjab province and arrested four al-Qaeda terrorists. According to the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), it got a credible information that four terrorists belonging to al-Qaeda were present near Francis Abad, Sheikhupura road Gujranwala, some 80-km from Lahore. “They were […]
US pullout from Afghanistan: Pak, China discuss resurgence of the Taliban
Beijing: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met his Chinese counterpart Tuesday and discussed the situation arising out of the US decision to pull nearly 7,000 troops from Afghanistan and resurgence of the Taliban in the war-torn country. Qureshi, who is on a three-day four-nation tour, arrived here Tuesday morning following his visit to Afghanistan […]
43 killed in Kabul govt compound attack
Kabul: An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest assaults on the Afghan capital this year. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the raid, which caps a bloody year for Afghanistan as long-suffering civilians and […]
From military standoff to bonhomie: 2018 will go down as watershed year in testy India-China ties
Beijing: The year 2018 will go down as a watershed in India-China relations for its remarkable turnaround – from the brink of a major military standoff to bonhomie – with the first informal summit of the top leaders of the two countries leading to cooling down of tensions between the two Asian giants. In 2017, […]